From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 16:56:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F4C59B6D-9EFC-4414-BFDA-7D6218B4ED7E@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c5841d56430d1482b42e7f2ff366dc9@chula.quanstro.net>
On 28 Jan 2011, at 1:36 pm, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> if you want to be a cynic, a non-pluggable architecture is super
> for hardware companies. they can segment the heck out of
> the market and get to the bad old says of charging big bucks
> for little extra features. since there's no way to add them
> yourselves.
there goes my worldview. ;) i had been thinking integrated solutions
were the way to go because they can be so much simpler but i had
forgotten about this possibility. thanks for the reminder.
come to think of it, it's not just a matter of the hardware companies
being able to charge big bucks for extra features. it can also take a
lot of work to add a little extra to a non-pluggable design.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-01 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-27 17:35 Lawrence E. Bakst
2011-01-27 17:38 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-27 18:00 ` Lawrence E. Bakst
2011-01-27 18:16 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-28 2:45 ` hiro
2011-01-28 2:47 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-28 3:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-01-28 4:57 ` Lawrence E. Bakst
[not found] ` <p06240816c967e571b63d@192.168.1.155>
2011-01-28 21:31 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-01-28 21:56 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-28 23:42 ` hiro
2011-01-29 10:40 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-01-29 10:51 ` Lawrence E. Bakst
[not found] ` <p0624080bc969982a9965@192.168.1.155>
2011-01-29 11:09 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-01-29 13:17 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-29 23:56 ` Noah Evans
2011-01-28 10:06 ` Richard Miller
2011-01-28 12:50 ` hiro
2011-01-28 13:36 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-01 16:56 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2011-02-01 22:27 ` hiro
2011-02-01 22:52 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-27 18:01 ` Lawrence E. Bakst
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